G-quadruplexes in genomes of viruses infecting eukaryotes or prokaryotes are under different selection pressures from hosts

Zhen Li; Sheng Hu Qian; Fan Wang; Hany I. Mohamed; Guangfu Yang; Zhen-Xia Chen; Dengguo Wei

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2021.08.018

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G-quadruplexes in genomes of viruses infecting eukaryotes or prokaryotes are under different selection pressures from hosts

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.08.018

Zhen Li^a,b,c,d,
Sheng Hu Qian^b,c,e,
Fan Wang^f,g,
Hany I. Mohamed^h,
Guangfu Yang^f,g,
Zhen-Xia Chen^b,c,e,i,j,k,
Dengguo Wei^a,b,c,l

a State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China;
b Hubei Hongshan Laboratory, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
c Interdisciplinary Sciences Institute, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
d College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
e College of Biomedicine and Health, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
f Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China;
g International Joint Research Center for Intelligent Biosensor Technology and Health, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China;
h Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Benha University, Benha 13518, Egypt;
i Hubei Key Laboratory of Agricultural Bioinformatics, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
j Shenzhen Institute of Nutrition and Health, Huazhong Agricultural University, Shenzhen 518124, China;
k Shenzhen Branch, Guangdong Laboratory for Lingnan Modern Agriculture, Genome Analysis Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518124, China;
l National Reference Laboratory of Veterinary Drug Residues (HZAU) and MAO Key Laboratory for Detection of Veterinary Drug Residues, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China

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and HZAU-AGIS Cooperation Fund (SZYJY2021010). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication. We thank Chen Dong for providing the schematic diagram of viral G-quadruplex on the web page.

We thank Prof. Sisi Liu (College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University) for the project consultation and Mr. Zhiyuan Huang (College of Informatics, Huazhong Agricultural University) for the graphics visualization. This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21732002, 22077043, 31672558, 31871305, 21907036)

Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, China (2020FB08)

the Fundamental Research Funds for the (2662018PY021, 2662019PY003, 2662020PY001) Huazhong Agricultural University Scientific & Technological Self-innovation Foundation (2016RC011)

Received Date: 2021-05-23
Accepted Date: 2021-08-18
Rev Recd Date: 2021-08-18

Available Online: 2022-02-19

Publish Date: 2021-09-30

Abstract

Abstract

G-quadruplexes in viral genomes can be applied as the targets of antiviral therapies, which has attracted wide interest. However, it is still not clear whether the pervasive number of such elements in the viral world is the result of natural selection for functionality. In this study, we identified putative quadruplex-forming sequences (PQSs) across the known viral genomes and analyzed the abundance, structural stability, and conservation of viral PQSs. A Viral Putative G-quadruplex Database (http://jsjds.hzau.edu.cn/MBPC/ViPGD/index.php/home/index) was constructed to collect the details of each viral PQS, which provides guidance for selecting the desirable PQS. The PQS with two putative G-tetrads (G₂-PQS) was significantly enriched in both eukaryotic viruses and prokaryotic viruses, whereas the PQSs with three putative G-tetrads (G₃-PQS) were only enriched in eukaryotic viruses and depleted in prokaryotic viruses. The structural stability of PQSs in prokaryotic viruses was significantly lower than that in eukaryotic viruses. Conservation analysis showed that the G₂-PQS, instead of G₃-PQS, was highly conserved within the genus. This suggested that the G₂-quadruplex might play an important role in viral biology, and the difference in the occurrence of G-quadruplex between eukaryotic viruses and prokaryotic viruses may result from the different selection pressures from hosts.
- G-quadruplex,
- Selection pressure,
- Database,
- Evolution

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